Happy Valentine's Day

First off… I take it you’ve all noticed the name change… Yes it’s the same ole Nicole you’ve grown to love… I just thought I’d try this name out.  It’s the way my husband answers the phone to friends and family a lot of times.  He has even answered our home phone that way, although…

I live in Southwest Missouri. That means that we could go a whole winter without snow or we could get a SW MO style Blizzard and get 18″ of snow dumped on us. And if you don’t like the weather, stick around 30 and it will change. Last night they were calling for 5-12 inches…

There is a lot that can be learned from history… and oddly enough, we can say that we are a spoiled generation that is being brought up. In 2007 when we had the icestorms around here and 100K+ were without power for up to 2-3 weeks… people would complain when they were just without for…

It cracks me up how people manage to get to my blog sometimes.  In fact, I went and googled the key phrases and my blog didn’t come up on the first page of search results for quite a few of the phrases… not sure about the second… I didn’t go that far. But I thought…

**So I got this as an email, however I did my research and found out that in fact, it is true… so please enjoy!!** A man named Bob May, depressed and brokenhearted, stared out his drafty apartment window into the chilling December night. His four-year-old daughter Barbara sat on his lap quietly sobbing, Bob’s wife,…